| HB1005 | Pass | Health insurance policies; coverage; conversion policies. Repeals provisions relating to the conversion of coverage under a group policy to an individual policy. The measure also provides that certain mandated offers do not apply to health care plans...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0814) |
| HB133 | Pass | Two-Year College Transfer Grant Program; eligibility criteria. Permits a student to enroll in a four-year institution by the spring following the award of an associate's degree and remain eligible for a grant under the program. Current law requires a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0806) |
| HB638 | Pass | Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; tenant's noncompliance; death of tenant. Provides that the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act may also be cited as the "Virginia Rental Housing Act." The bill also allows a landlord, regardless ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0813) |
| HB1009 | Pass | Workforce development. Recasts the Virginia Workforce Council as the Virginia Board of Workforce Development. The Governor is authorized to appoint a Chief Workforce Development Advisor, and related responsibilities of the Governor are assigned to t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0815) |
| HB375 | Pass | Patent infringement; assertions made in bad faith. Prohibits any person from making in bad faith an assertion of patent infringement. The Attorney General or an attorney for the Commonwealth is empowered to accept assurances of voluntary compliance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0810) |
| HB1212 | Veto | Political contributions and gifts; prohibition in connection with the Governor's Development Opportunity Fund. Provides that the Governor, his campaign committee, and any political action committee established on his behalf shall not knowingly solici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB272 | Pass | Judicial performance evaluation program. Requires the judicial performance evaluation program, which provides a self-improvement mechanism for judges and a source of information for the reelection process, established by the Supreme Court of Virginia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0808) |
| HB354 | Pass | Joint Leadership Council of Veterans Service Organizations; powers and duties. Clarifies that the Joint Leadership Council of Veterans Service Organizations may advise the General Assembly regarding methods of providing support for ongoing veterans s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0809) |
| HB868 | Veto | Conditional release of geriatric prisoners; persons subject to protective orders ineligible. Provides that a prisoner is ineligible for conditional release due to age if he was convicted of a felony act of violence and was subject to a protective ord...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB650 | Veto | Boating safety course. Exempts from the requirements of the boating safety education course persons who hold various landing and aquaculture licenses and permits from the Virginia Marine Resources Commission and persons 45 years of age or older who h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| HB199 | Pass | Legislation affecting local government expenditures or reductions. Requires the Division of Legislative Services to identify and forward to the Commission on Local Government (Commission) introduced joint resolutions calling for a study of local gove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0807) |
| HB377 | Pass | Adjustment or relocation of billboard signs. Includes the erection of a sound barrier as an action that allows relocation of a billboard sign. The bill also allows a billboard to remain in its original location until the Commissioner of Highways or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0811) |
| HB1109 | Pass | Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments; membership. Increases the membership of the Virginia Commission on Higher Education Board Appointments from seven to eight by adding one faculty member of a public institution of higher educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0816) |
| HB606 | Pass | Number of circuit and district court judges. Increases and decreases the number of circuit, general district, and juvenile court judges authorized for each judicial circuit and district in accordance with a study report issued by the National Center ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0812) |
| HB1191 | Pass | Secretary of Commerce and Trade; annual reports evaluating the effectiveness of certain economic development incentive programs. Requires the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to submit an annual report to the Chairs of the Senate Finance and the House...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-05-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0817) |
| HJR243 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Lawrence Hubbard Tate, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-29
Introduced bill reprinted 14103981D |
| HB10 | Pass | Judges; retirement allowance and service after retirement. Provides that the annual retirement allowance of any person who has served as a judge but retires under a different defined benefit retirement plan shall not exceed 78 percent of the person's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0776) |
| HB1053 | Pass | Office of the State Inspector General; powers and duties; internal auditors. Provides that the performance review of a state agency, nonstate agency, or independent contractor of a state agency conducted by the Office of the Inspector General include...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788) |
| HB1040 | Veto | Use of photo-monitoring systems to enforce traffic light signals; appeals. Provides that operators found in violation of ordinances created to enforce photo-monitoring systems for traffic lights have a right to appeal to the circuit court in a civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Requires 26 affirmative votes to pass in enrolled form |
| HB1211 | Pass | State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council. Establishes the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council composed of 15 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0792) |
| HB132 | Pass | Commissioned officers; tuition-free instruction. Adds the departments of emergency management, emergency services, public safety, and disaster management to the list of departments at state institutions of higher education in which commissioned offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0778) |
| HB882 | Pass | Alcoholic beverage control; sale of cider in certain containers. Allows cider containing less than seven percent of alcohol to be sold in any containers that comply with federal regulations for wine or beer and cider containing seven percent or more ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0787) |
| HB104 | Pass | Elections; officers of elections; chief and assistant chief election officers. Allows the chief and assistant chief election officers to be nonpartisan if a representative for one or both of the two political parties receiving the highest and next hi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0777) |
| HB866 | Pass | Charter; Town of Christiansburg. Updates the town boundary description. Other changes alter the method for filling vacancies on council or in the office of mayor, require an annual audit of the town's financial records, delete or update numerous obso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0786) |
| HB492 | Pass | Notaries; providing advice on immigration; advertising. Prohibits a notary public from offering or providing legal advice to any person in immigration or other legal matters or representing any person in immigration proceedings unless such notary pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0783) |
| HB403 | Pass | Prior sex offenses admissible in evidence; sex crimes against child. Provides that in a criminal case in which the defendant is accused of a felony sexual offense involving a child victim, evidence of the defendant's conviction of another sexual offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0782) |
| HB285 | Pass | Emergency protective orders; arrests for certain offenses. Includes special conservators of the peace who have met the certification requirements for a law-enforcement officer in the definition of a law-enforcement officer for the purposes of obtaini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0779) |
| HB791 | Pass | Condominium and Property Owners' Association Acts; rule enforcement. Provides that associations may file or defend a legal action in general district or circuit court to seek an order to require that any violation of the condominium instruments or ru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0784) |
| HB311 | Pass | Revision of Title 33.1. Creates proposed Title 33.2 (Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems) as a revision of existing Title 33.1 (Highways, Bridges and Ferries), as well as portions of Titles 15.2 (Counties, Cities and Towns), 56 (Public ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0805) |
| HB1268 | Pass | Public institutions of higher education; violence prevention committee policies and procedures. Requires the violence prevention committee of each public institution of higher education to establish policies and procedures that outline circumstances ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793) |
| HB829 | Pass | Automated sales suppression device; penalties. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to willfully utilize any device or software to falsify the electronic records of cash registers or manipulate transaction records that affect any state or local tax liabili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0785) |
| HB1195 | Pass | Charter; Town of Rural Retreat. Provides a new charter for the Town of Rural Retreat containing powers typically granted to towns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0791) |
| HB1072 | Pass | Scanning information from driver's license. Prohibits any merchant in the Commonwealth from scanning the machine-readable zone of an individual's Department of Motor Vehicles-issued identification card or driver's license, except to (i) verify authen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0789) |
| HB1110 | Pass | Children placed in child-caring institutions or group homes; reimbursement of costs to educate. Requires a school division to be reimbursed by the school division in which a child's custodial parent or guardian or most recent custodial parent or guar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0790) |
| HB373 | Pass | School speech-language pathologists; licensure. Removes the Board of Education as a licensing entity for school speech-language pathologists and leaves the Board of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology as the only licensing entity. The bill puts m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0781) |
| HB334 | Pass | Local multidisciplinary child sexual abuse response teams. Requires every attorney for the Commonwealth to establish a multidisciplinary child sexual abuse response team to conduct regular reviews of cases involving felony sex offenses involving chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-23
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0780) |
| HJR161 | Pass | Teen Cancer Awareness Week. Designates the third week in January, in 2015 and in each succeeding year, as Teen Cancer Awareness Week in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-21
Introduced bill reprinted 14101355D |
| HJR108 | Pass | Rare Disease Day. Designates February 28, in 2014 and in each succeeding year, as Rare Disease Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-21
Introduced bill reprinted 14102916D |
| HB1242 | Pass | Elected school boards; tie breaker. Requires the tie breaker of any elected school board to be elected in the same manner and for the same length of term as the members of the school board and at a general election at which members of the school boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0772) |
| HB478 | Pass | Emergency custody orders; duration; notification. Extends the time that a person may be held pursuant to an emergency custody order from four hours with a possible two-hour extension to eight hours. The bill also provides that a representative of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0761) |
| HB1000 | Pass | Real property tax exemption; elderly and disabled. Provides that the real property tax exemption for the sole dwelling of the elderly and disabled includes dwellings held by certain trusts. The bill also provides that if a locality establishes income...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0767) |
| HB752 | Pass | Elementary and secondary school students; expulsion. Clarifies that students who have committed certain weapons or drugs offenses are not required to be expelled regardless of the facts of the particular situation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0765) |
| HB1026 | Pass | Check cashers; recordkeeping requirements; civil penalty. Requires each registered check casher to make copies of, or maintain a record of information from, each item cashed and the customer's identification document prior to cashing the item. Record...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0768) |
| HB501 | Pass | Counting students granted in-state tuition for certain purposes. Requires (i) students who live outside the Commonwealth, have been employed full time inside Virginia for at least one year, and were granted in-state tuition and (ii) any active duty m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0762) |
| HB1209 | Pass | Family day homes. Clarifies that a local governing body may, after notice and a public hearing, either approve, subject to such conditions as agreed upon by the applicant and the locality, or deny a zoning permit application for a family day home ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0771) |
| HB410 | Pass | Student-athletes; concussion policies. Requires each non-interscholastic youth sports program utilizing public school property to (i) establish policies and procedures regarding the identification and handling of suspected concussions in student-athl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0760) |
| HB1043 | Pass | Health benefit exchanges; regulation of navigators. Requires navigators, on and after September 1, 2014, to be registered with the State Corporation Commission, in addition to being certified by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HH...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0769) |
| HB1106 | Pass | Virginia Commission on Youth; review and report on the use of seclusion and restraint in schools. Requires the Virginia Commission on Youth, in consultation with the Department of Education and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0770) |
| HB180 | Pass | Invention development services; disclosure and civil penalty. Requires each contract for invention development services to include on its cover sheet a disclosure that the contract is a fee-for-service contract with no guarantees as to success of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0759) |
| HB1232 | Pass | Acute psychiatric bed registry; create. Directs the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to establish an acute psychiatric bed registry that will provide real-time information on the availability of beds in public and private ps...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-04-07
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0774) |
